Being a pilot is still considered to usually be in the top five most dangerous things you can do.
There’s a reason for the checklists. Like many aviation rules, they came from someone bending metal or getting killed.
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Utter tangent:
Has anyone ever made a PC that ... has to be pull started like an older ICE lawn mower?
EDIT: I've jerry rigged together spare PC parts into a make shift media center pc... that used the box my roomate's Xbox 360 came in as a 'case'... you had to actually jump the right two pins on the mobo to start it, rofl.
...we used a paper clip that had a bit of colored rubber or epoxy coating of some kind, wire stripper stripped that off of the last inch or so.
But a lawnmower start pc ... that would be even funnier.
You could just make or buy the pull mechanism and hook it up to a speaker.
I imagine having an internal combustion engine that close to computer components would make for a very short lived computer.
I mean... yes, lol.
It wouldn't be the entire engine, just the starter.
But even that would probably not be a good idea.
I just figure someone must have made some kind of custom build that outwardly resembles a pull start, just as a novelty thing, but in actuality just... sends the power on signal to ... whatever that particular pin board on the mobo is called.
It wouldn't be hard to take a motor or something, hook a string to it, and then use the electricity it outputs to activate the power button. It's more effort than I'd put into something that's actively inconvenient, but you could make it if you want probably.
Less useful things have been designed:
lol
Reload the weaponry? Yes sir, if you'll hand me the pistol, I will personally put 6 new cartridges in!
It took some searching, but I found the masterpiece I was looking for.
Dude's having a blast
"And tell Gandalf 'fuck you too!' "
Glorious, thank you. Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyoink.
the pistol
Major Bill March, a historian with the Royal Canadian Air Force, is quoted as saying of the early pilots “they used to call themselves the 20-Minute Club because the life expectancy of a new pilot in combat in 1916-17 was 20 minutes.”
I understand that in the early part of the war pilots were being sent into combat with less than 9 hours flying time – basically, they knew how to take-off. But of course, we all know that there is a lot more to it than that, being able to land is probably optimistic, but useful if the need presented itself.
Woof!
Educate yourself. Go back to the source Rowan stole from...
Slave trader, rapist, turncoat, scoundrel, bully, cad, thief, coward, and winner of the VC. General Sir Harry Padget Flashman, damn your eyes!
That's grim, hadn't heard that before. I guess that the aces were the ones good at learning quickly and improvising.
I'm not an expert, but I can see the military minds of the time thinking that training people would be a waste of time because flying was so deadly. In their minds it would be like training people to swim across the Atlantic from New York to London; it was a matter of luck, not training.
imho
They use to call me the 2-Minute Club back in college.
You still pretending that you went to school?
[jk]
Had a buddy walk out during a community college placement test because it was getting too hard. I tried telling him the point of a placement test is to have hard questions but it never clicked.
I think we've all met that guy at least once.
The hand cranking lad was before the time they started engines with shotgun shells.
See the original, not the terrible remake. I was reminded because of starting an engine with a gun.
Oh no, down the rabbit hole I go.
WWI Pilot: Alright fellas, just grab me my parachute and I'll be off.
Ground Crew:
Some ancient dude (falling from a cliff): me go brrrrr!